On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:45:12PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> I'd like to change the default Solaris LOCALBASE to match that
> of NetBSD and Linux (/usr/pkg).
>
> In order to avoid hosing any existing Solaris pkgsrc users I
> propose adding a check which causes pkgsrc to error out if the
> following four conditions are met:
> + Running on Solaris
> + LOCALBASE is not set in mk.conf or environment
> + /usr/local/libexec/cgi-bin is present
> + /usr/pkg/libexec/cgi-bin is not present
>
> New installations would automatically pick up /usr/pkg, existing
> users who have not set LOCALBASE and who want to keep /usr/local
> would need to add it to their mk.conf
>
> If there are no objections I'll go ahead with this later this
> week.
No objection from me - it has been a matter of extreme shame to me
that I used /usr/local for the default Solaris LOCALBASE setting.
It made sense at the time, with the infrastructure I was using, but
should have been changed before the Solaris changes hit our tree.
Sorry,
Alistair (who will re-surface RSN)